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| Removing breath-sounds from Sunday Morning --
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I am currently adding finishing touches to the tracks (eep!!). A major thing that I am doing right now is Removing obnoxious breathing in between phrases.
Don't you just hate it when a singer is gasping for air, and you can hear it in the recording? I know that I, at least, find it very distracting. And while I don't make a habit of trying to inhale my microphone, it never hurts to try and clean up the breaks in between phrases in the vocals.
This is usually a pretty straight-forward process. If you zoom far enough in when examining a single vocal track, you can find and silence breath noises.
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Identify the problem spot, highlight it (but be careful not to include anything important, like the start or end of a word), and generate silence to replace the time.
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| Audacity makes it easy; if you highlight an area, it will automatically enter the exact time equivalent of silence -- so much easier then trying to calculate or estimate yourself! |
I've found that I have to be careful not to overuse this technique; sometimes, it can cause the vocals to sound almost robotic because it never has natural pauses or breath! Sounding natural is great, but sounding the BEST natural that I can is even better!
